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Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 3-1         http://www.debian.org/
[email protected]                              Philipp Kern
March 14th, 2011
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Upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 Update (6.0.1)

An update to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 is scheduled for Saturday, March 19th,
2011.  As of now it will include the following bug fixes.  They can be
found in `squeeze-proposed-updates', which is carried by all official
mirrors.

Please note that packages published through security.debian.org are not
listed, but will be included if possible.

Testing and feedback would be appreciated.  Bugs should be filed in the
BTS, but please make the Release Team aware of them by copying `debian-
[email protected]'.

The point release will also include a rebuild of debian-installer.


Miscellaneous Bugfixes
----------------------

This stable update adds a few important corrections to the following
packages:

    Package                       Reason

    apt-dater                     Correct syntax of default configuration file
    base-files                    Update /etc/debian_version for the point 
release
    cdebconf                      Allow the GTK frontend to be used in a window 
managed environment
    clive                         Adapt for youtube.com changes
    cmake                         Rebuild upstream tarball to remove 
undistributable Windows build systems files
    console-setup                 Fix Swiss German, Bulgarian and Swedish 
keymaps in the installer
    cryptsetup                    Install cryptkeyctl initramfs hook; lukadmin: 
avoid possible race conditions by invoking udevadm settle
    dbconfig-common               Fix version sorting logic bug on upgrade 
files in postinst
    debian-reference              Refer to squeeze-updates rather than 
volatile; fix URL for Debian Mirror Checker
    debootstrap                   Fix --private-key and ar usage
    deluge                        Fix hang on quit
    desktop-base                  Fix plymouth output in dual-screen 
configurations
    devscripts                    Make squeeze the default backports target; 
add wheezy{,-ignore} tags
    eclipse                       Fix XSS in help browser application
    exuberant-ctags               Use memmove rather than strcpy on overlapping 
strings
    ganeti                        Don't break permissions of /var/lock when 
running "gnt-node add"
    gdm3                          Handle del{group,user} failures gracefully; 
fix grep usage; use correct names for UTF-8 locales
    gedit                         Fix important mistake in the Brazilian 
Portugese translation
    git                           Fix escaping in gitweb, new add.ignoreErrors 
variable
    gnome-screensaver             Disable non-functional libnotify support
    gnumed-client                 Install translations to the correct location
    ia32-libs                     Refresh packages from stable and 
proposed-updates.
    ia32-libs-core                Refresh packages from stable and 
proposed-updates.
    ia32-libs-gtk                 Refresh packages from stable and 
proposed-updates.
    installation-guide            Update content for squeeze
    katoob                        Fix crash when setting tooltips
    kde4libs                      Add a kconf_update script to migrate away 
from old KDE3 icon themes
    kdebase-workspace             Fix random but common krunner crashes
    kernel-wedge                  Add hid-cherry and sdhci_pci modules
    kfreebsd-8                    Fix local DoS in TCP stack; emulate Catalan's 
middle-dot l/L characters by ASCII l/L
    kgb-bot                       Fix version check to allow possible future 
security updates
    krusader                      Properly fix problems terminating the 
application
    libapache-mod-jk              Ease upgrades from lenny by disabling 
SOCK_CLOEXEC use
    libdebian-installer           Add support for new Buffalo Linkstation 
devices
    libemail-mime-createhtml-perl Add missing dependency on libfile-policy-perl
    libvirt                       Make init script "status" target exit 
statuses LSB-compliant to assist monitoring
    linux-2.6                     Several fixes
    magpierss                     Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability 
(CVE-2011-0740)
    mcabber                       Fix crash, segfault, command-line corruption 
and FD leaks
    mediawiki                     Fix a CSS injection vulnerability
    mediawiki-extensions          PHP 5.3 compatibility fixes for the 
confirmedit plugin
    nautilus                      Fix crash in nautilus_file_peek_display_name()
    network-manager               Only comment out exact matches in 
/etc/network/interfaces; normalise keys in ifupdown parser; correctly handle 
device removal
    ocrodjvu                      Fix upside-down generation of hocr data
    ocsigen                       Add missing dependencies on 
lib{lwt-ssl,ocsigen-xhtml}-ocaml-dev
    pdftk                         Support prompting for both owner and user 
passwords; allow filenames to start with "odd", "even" or "end"
    pulseaudio                    Fix pacmd hanging in poll() when reading from 
stdin very early
    python-defaults               Use full path to python interpreters in 
pycompile to ease lenny to squeeze upgrades
    samba                         Missing input sanisiting
    sobby                         Ensure session files are writable by the 
sobby user
    sudo                          Resolve interoperability issues between -H 
and HOME in env_keep
    sun-java6                     Several security fixes
    ttf-liberation                Correctly flag Liberation Mono as monospaced
    tzdata                        New upstream release; update Chilean DST
    usb-modeswitch-data           Fix modeswitching lines for Huawei devices; 
add support for more devices
    why                           Mark Squeeze's coq version as a compatible 
prover
    xorg-server                   Fix crashes with MCE remotes; fix rotation 
[nvidia]; drop support for XF86Config-4
    xserver-xorg-video-intel      Fix null pointer dereference and SDL-related 
issues

A complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with
rationale is on the preparation page for this revision:

  <http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html>


If there are any issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the
Debian Release Team at `[email protected]'.

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